Student Essentials: Dissertation - Softcover

Cooper, Jessica

 
9781844554201: Student Essentials: Dissertation
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1844554201 ISBN 13: 9781844554201
Publisher: Trotman, 2011

Synopsis

This practical and easy-to-use guide allows students to master essential dissertation skills in just one hour. With advice, useful checklists and exercises to help develop the core skills required to successfully plan and write a great dissertation. From planning, structure and research to writing effectively.

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Introduction

The dissertation is a ‘longitudinal project’ which takes months, and in some cases a year or more, to complete. It is a style of assessment which you may not have encountered before, so this could mean learning a lot of new skills in a short space of time. You may be excited by this prospect, or possibly a little scared, but as long as you know what is expected of you, the dissertation should not pose you any major problems.

The exciting thing about the dissertation is that you have the opportunity to take full ownership of your project. This means that you are responsible for everything, from finding out what to study, to finding out how to study it.

Unlike an essay, the dissertation is not a linear process and it doesn’t follow a neat chronological order, although it must be presented as such in the final written paper. Simply put, you start the dissertation process in the middle (choosing your topic, doing background reading and designing a research proposal), move to the end (the results and conclusion) and end at the start (the introduction). Sometimes you need to go back to a previous conclusion to reinterpret or re-evaluate a claimas a result of new findings. You may find that you go back to the same point in the process several times. This isn’t as laborious as it sounds. Each time you go back you will have more knowledge – and having more knowledge means being able to see the situation in a different way than before.

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Publisher
Trotman
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1844554201
ISBN 13 
9781844554201
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
106